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Stopping A Stalker: A Cop's Guide To Making The System Work For You

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As a cop who deals with these situations, I was very impressed with this book. I thought the perspective and writing was refreshing. I've read about a dozen books on stalking and I would have to rate this one as the most useful for me.

Captain Snow has written the most practical book to date on stalking. This book makes you understand as no other will why a stalker is willing to risk everything. And until you understand this, you will not understand why you must be willing to take drastic measures and never half measures to protect yourself, and why you must learn to recognize trouble and say no to it early on. This is a book that should be taught in high school and one which should be used as a prerequisite for law enforcment, judiciary and correctional officials.

Length:: 9:59 Mins

I made a slide show based on this book "Stopping a Stalker" by Captain Snow Chapter 8 Cause Stalking and includes notes of another book Cause Stalking by Dave Lawson P.I.

Police Officer Captain Robert Snow is the only police officer that we know of who recognizes the existence of stalking groups. [The rest of the Law Enforcement Community still on denial]. There is an abstract of this chapter in the MultiStalk online forums.

This book is the worst kind of fear-mongering. The author sensationalizes a complex subject, using anecdotal evidence from specific cases to generalize to some horrible conclusions.

One such conclusion, blatantly irresponsible, is illustrated in bald statements such as found on page 196--

"Stalking only stops defintely and permanently when the stalker dies" and victims "are still forced to look over their shoulders for the rest of their lives".

Of all the books available on the subject of stalking, this is the worst. It disempowers the potential victim, mindlessly regurgitating some of the prescriptive recommendations from the Paul E. Mullen book (Stalkers and Their Victims), while couching the entire spectrum of stalking types and behaviors in the same terroristic tactics of sensational "journalism".

If you suspect that you are a victim or on the verge of becoming a victim of stalking behaviors, skip this book-- it will only provide fuel for your fearful fantasies. Better, read Dr. Doreen Orion's "I Know You Really Love Me" and ponder the different emotional suffering experienced by Dr. Orion and her husband (each of whom were stalked, but each affected differently), or read Gavin de Becker's "The Gift Of Fear" and contemplate the contrast in the two kinds of fear that he describes in his book-- fear that is real and of immediate danger, and the invented, socialized fear implanted by imagination and media (such as this Snow Job).

this book is very good. i've read it and Captain Snow did a great job. but of course.. he is my uncle! ^_^